{"id":7062,"date":"2016-09-17T15:29:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T13:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.superhosting.bg\/en\/?p=7062"},"modified":"2022-03-18T15:53:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T12:53:25","slug":"what-is-io-iops","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/help.superhosting.bg\/en\/what-is-io-iops.html","title":{"rendered":"I\/O\u00a0(Input\/Output\u00a0Operations)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In computing, communication between two processing systems is based on <a class=\"helplinkext\" title=\"Input\/output - Wikipedia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Input\/output\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>I<\/strong>nput-<strong>O<\/strong>utput<\/a> operations. For example, input operations are the signals\/data sent from a CPU or another type of controller towards a storage device. While output operations are reading and sending data from a drive towards an external system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I\/O<\/strong> drive operations can be calculated as the number of I\/O operations performed per second (IOPS) or as a transfer speed (the size of the data transferred for a second).<\/p>\n<p><strong>IOPS<\/strong>\u00a0(<strong>I<\/strong>nput\/<strong>o<\/strong>utput\u00a0<strong>O<\/strong>perations\u00a0<strong>p<\/strong>er\u00a0<strong>S<\/strong>econd) \u2013 the number of input-output operations per second, performed from\/towards the\u00a0SSD drives of the server.\u044a\u0440\u0432\u044a\u0440\u0430.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IO MB\/sec<\/strong>\u00a0(transfer from\/to drive) \u2013 data transfer rate during I\/O operations. It is calculated in\u00a0<a class=\"helplinkext\" title=\"Data_rate_units#Kilobyte_per_second - Wikipedia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Data_rate_units#Kilobyte_per_second\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KB\/sec<\/a> or <a class=\"helplinkext\" title=\"Data_rate_units#Megabyte_per_second - Wikipedia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Data_rate_units#Megabyte_per_second\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MB\/sec<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If compared to the common hard disc drives, solid state drives support more operations per second and a higher transfer rate.<\/p>\n<p>SSD are distinguished from standard HDD by their exceptional features. 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